Preliminary Programme

Showing: room W (all days)
Wed 23 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 24 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 17.30

Fri 25 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 26 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

All days
Wednesday 23 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
W-1 MAT03 Global Luxury Commodities: Production, Exchange, Consumption and Valuation
Hörsaal 50 second floor
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , World History Chair: Beverly Lemire
Organizer: Karin Hofmeester Discussant: Beverly Lemire
Bernd Stephan Grewe : Towards a Global History of Luxury: Transcultural and Decentered Perspectives on a Global Phenomenon
Karin Hofmeester : Diamonds: a Global Luxury Commodity Shaping Global Connections
Karin Pallaver : "The Mysterious End of the World in Which Beads are Found under Ground": Venetian Glass Beads in 19th-Century East Africa
Giorgio Riello : From Luxury to Fashionable Necessity: The Success of Cotton Textiles in the First Global Age



Wednesday 23 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
W-2 MAT04 Global Trade and European Fashion: People and Commodities in the Transformation of European Material Culture, c. 1500-1800
Hörsaal 50 second floor
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Michael North
Organizer: Beverly Lemire Discussants: -
Christine Fertig, Ulrich Pfister : Coffee, Mind and Body: Stories of Globalization and Consumption, Hamburg, 18th Century
Veronika Hyden-Hanscho : Beaver Hats in Vienna: Global Dimensions of French Commodities, c. 1650-1750
Beverly Lemire : A Question of Trousers: Mariners and Empire in the Crafting of Democratic Male Dress in Britain, c. 1600-1820
Renate Pieper : Red and Blue: New Colours from a New World (1550-1650)



Wednesday 23 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
W-3 ELI19a Developing Distinction: Objects and Practices I
Hörsaal 50 second floor
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: My Hellsing
Organizers: - Discussant: My Hellsing
Marko Hakanen, Ulla Koskinen : Noble Displays: Emerging Material Culture of the Swedish Aristocracy 1500-1700
Sophie Holm : Rank or Status? Foreign Envoys as Part of the Political Elite in Stockholm during the Diet of 1746–1747
Marjorie Meiss-Even : Some Conclusions on Aristocratic Material Culture in Renaissance France
Konstantinos Raptis : Mobile Elites: Moving High Nobles and Aristocratic Travelling Culture in Central Europe from the Late 19th Century into the Interwar Period
Charlotta Wolff : Cosmopolitan opera, politics and popular taste: French opéra-comique in Northern Europe, ca. 1760-??1800



Wednesday 23 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
W-4 ELI19b Developing Distinction: Objects and Practices II
Hörsaal 50 second floor
Network: Elites and forerunners Chair: Charlotta Wolff
Organizers: - Discussant: Charlotta Wolff
Dominique Bauer : The Artificial Interior in Nineteenth Century Literature as a Code of Bourgeois Culture
Thomas Bryant : Governmental Catering, Public Dining and Social Disciplining – The Concept of “Political Culinarism” on the Example of “Stew Sundays” in Nazi Germany
Georgeta Nazarska : Women in Bulgarian Pre-Socialist Reputational Elites
Kekke Stadin : The Formal Call as Bourgeoise Distinction



Thursday 24 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
W-5 MAT09 Nouveaux Riches and Country House Culture in Europe, 1750-1914. Comparative Research on ‘Landed’ Consumption Styles of the Rich and Very Rich
Hörsaal 50 second floor
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Yme Kuiper
Organizer: Yme Kuiper Discussant: Jon Stobart
Kate Smith : Nabobs No More: Returning East India Company Families
Elyze Storms-Smeets : Textile ‘Barons’ as a New Landed Elite in the 19th Century: a Geographical and Comparative Approach
Henrika Tandefelt, Maria Vainio-Kurtakko : New Money and Old Families – Coexistence, Competition and Consumption Finland c. 1870–1920
Fred Vogelzang : Industrialists and Country House Culture in the Dutch Province of Limburg during the 19th Century



Thursday 24 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
W-6 MAT08 Mass Consumption Society Contested. The Politics of Consumer Concerns from a Global Perspective (1945-2000)
Hörsaal 50 second floor
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Gita Deneckere
Organizer: Giselle Nath Discussant: Alexander Sedlmaier
Martin Gerth : The History of Boycott Movements in Germany
Sanjukta Ghosh : Decolonisation and the Consumer Politics of Hunger in Bengal 1944-50.
Fruzsina Müller : Jeans Production in Socialist Hungary
Giselle Nath : Postwar Consumer Movements in Belgium: Politicization, Depolitization and Competition (1957-1970)
Peter van Dam : Moralizing the Global Marketplace. Fair Trade in the Netherlands since the 1960s



Thursday 24 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
W-7 HEA19 Doctors, Health Professionals and Institutions
Hörsaal 50 second floor
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Nava Blum
Organizers: - Discussant: Nava Blum
Christopher Gale : Patients, Professionals, Politicians and the Public Purse: the Rise and Professionalisation of the UK Mental Health Service User Movement from the Mid-Twentieth Century
Bárbara Ana Revuelta Eugercios : The Effect of the Institutional Environment on Children Mortality in La Inclusa de Madrid (Madrid,1890-1935)
Sara Silverstein : “We are still dead”: Refugee Doctors and the Rehabilitation of Europe after the Second World War



Thursday 24 April 2014 16.30 - 17.30
W-8 WOM00 Network meeting Women and Gender
Hörsaal 50 second floor
Network: Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -



Friday 25 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
W-9 MAT11 Rural Artisans, Shops and Consumers
Hörsaal 50 second floor
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Lesley Whitworth
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Lucy Bailey : ‘A Veritable Palace of Delight’: The Sentimental Portrayal of Childhood and the Village Shop in Victorian Literary and Visual Culture
Béatrice Craig : Modernity, Respectability and the Early 18th Century Canadian Rural Consumer
Marie Ulväng : Clothing, Gender, Values and Valuations in 19th Century
Merja Uotila : Rural Artisans in Early Nineteenth-Century Finland
Ann Wilson : Production, Consumption and Agency: Catholic Images in Late Nineteenth-century Ireland



Friday 25 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
W-10 MAT12 Marketing & Advertising
Hörsaal 50 second floor
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Ilja Van Damme
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Klara Arnberg, Jonatan Svanlund : Mad Women: Gendered Business in the Swedish Advertising Industry, 1870-1980
Gerulf Hirt, Sandra Schürmann : When the Cigarette Went to War: Investigating the Branded Product's Political Cultures during and after World War I
Sorcha O'Brien : Making Meaning with Ephemera – Electrical Technology and Irish National Identity in the 1920s
Cheryl Roberts : A Price for Fashion: A Young Working Class Woman’s Wardrobe in 1930s London.



Friday 25 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
W-11 ETH25soc13 Round Table: Migration, Settlement and Belonging in Europe’: Global and Long-term Perspectives
Hörsaal 50 second floor
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Social Inequality Chairs: Steven King, Anne Winter
Organizers: Steven King, Anne Winter Discussants: David Green, Peter King, Steven King, Lutz Rafael, Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, Anne Winter



Friday 25 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
W-12 WOM16 Embodied Gender
Hörsaal 50 second floor
Networks: Sexuality , Women and Gender Chair: Libora Oates-Indruchova
Organizers: - Discussant: Bettina Brandt
Sylvie Perrier : From Roman Law to Early Modern French Law : Legal Ideas About the Womb and Their Evolution
Natalia Pushkareva : The Depiction of the Female Mouth in Russian Literary and Visual Sources of the 12th through the 20th Centuries: a Feminist Interpretation
Emma Rees : Vulvanomics: How we Talk about Vaginas
Helena Tolvhed : New Femininities and Masculinities in the Health and Exercise Discourse from 1970



Saturday 26 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
W-13 MAT16 The Kitchen – a Room for Social Utopias, Ideals and Everyday Life during the Long Twentieth Century
Hörsaal 50 second floor
Network: Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Lesley Whitworth
Organizer: Jenny Lee Discussants: -
Rosalia Guerrero Cantarell : The Kitchen as a Loving Gendered Workplace in 1930s Sweden
Jenny Lee : Sowing Vegetables and Reaping Morality – Ideals on the Benefits of Kitchen Gardening
Fredrik Sandgren : The Freeze-chain Completed? When the Deepfrozen Food System Invaded the Swedish Kitchen 1945-1960
Abhijit Sarkar : The State in the Kitchen: State-Intervention in Food and Popular Responses in Wartime India (1939-45)



Saturday 26 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
W-14 MAT17 Jewish Space and Material Culture in Central Europe
Hörsaal 50 second floor
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Urban Chair: Lesley Whitworth
Organizer: Lisa Silverman Discussants: -
Dieter Hecht : The Mapping Wall: Framed Jewish Family Pictures
Louise Hecht : Appropriation of Jewish Space on the Wiener Ringstrasse: a Poet’s Apartment in Palais Schey
Elana Shapira : Bringing Culture to the Viennese? Jewish Patrons and Entrepreneurs Fashioning the Viennese Ring and the Entertainment Park Prater
Lisa Silverman : Vienna’s Jewish Geography: Imagining the Leopoldstadt



Saturday 26 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
W-15 POL MAT14 The Politics of Shopping in Twentieth-Century Britain and America: Reconsidering Party, Gender, Rhetoric and Activism
Hörsaal 50 second floor
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Kerstin Brückweh
Organizers: - Discussant: Vit Simral
Lawrence Black : The Knowledge Economy: Progressive Grocers, Shoppers and the Politics of Labeling in C20 Consumer History
Gidon Cohen : Consumption and Political Identity in Post-war Britain
Philippa Haughton : “Widening the Scope of Advertising’s Vision”: the Women’s Advertising Club of London’
Emily Robinson : “For Progressive Men only": The Politics of Commerce in Inter-war Britain
Will Wilson : Materiality, Festivity, and the Structuring of Society in the Third Reich, 1933-1939



Saturday 26 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
W-16 MAT15 Visualizing Social Inequality in Early Modern Europe
Hörsaal 50 second floor
Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Urban Chair: Leif Runefelt
Organizers: Leif Runefelt, Karin Sennefelt Discussant: Johanna Ilmakunnas
Eva Deak : Clothing Colors in Early Modern Transylvania (17th-18th Century)
Lucas Haasis : O Captain! My Captain! Hierarchies in 18th Century Correspondences between Merchants and Ship`s Captains
Astrid Pajur : Order and Disorder in an Urban Setting: Perceptions and Practices of Social Order in Early Modern Tallinn
Mikkel Venborg Pedersen : Filtering Impressions: Meeting with Fashionable Goods in Danish Everyday Life in the Eighteenth Century
Karin Sennefelt : Looking at Social Hierarchy: Stockholm 1650–1750


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